hong kong and abit of macau
5 crazy days in HK and an awesome day in Macau.
the next day i managed to find my host after getting a Chinese sim from 7 11 (a convenience store they have all over asia) anyway i got her to meet me at the McDonald's near her house, i took the subway to shami shui po and followed her directions to the McDonald's. I love the transport systems in asia there so organised, frequent and cheep. anyway i met jaq a really cool girrl, she lives with her dad(with blonde hair :0) and her brother. she gave me keys to her apartment and let me stay in a spare room. i was talking with her until about 3.00pm, very cool chick, interesting to talk to. anyway the next day after not planning what to do as usual i decided to take the metro to a random station and wonder around the city, ended up in the biggest shopping centre i have ever seen with very unsafe looking escalators with hardly any sides? i grabbed some street noodles and then headed to an internt cafe to research where to go and what to see and to organise meeting my friend tomorrow.
(pikky)
the next day i went to meet stella wong, a HK girl i met in Beijing at a couch surfing event. she took me to a traditional HK resteronte and introduced me to Chinese Hot pot, very popular in HK and very tasty indeed. after we wondered around before going to a rooftop bar with a view of the city, they where doing a pyrotechnics display, they were many people running around in monster masks and a guy dressed as mario?, at first i just thought it was the chinease well just been chinease but after aa while i realised it must be halloween, i realy loose track of time when im traveling. the view from the rooftop was so cool. after a couple of cool bears on the roof of a skyscraper looking at the crazyist view ever! oh and a pyrotecnics display we took the tram to lay fan kwong, the busiest street of bars in HK, a very famous area i think feachered in a couple of films, anyway its suposed to be bussy on a normal day, i couldn't imagine what it would be like on Halloween. thousands of nutty Chinese running around dressed as everything, most not realy halloween related, people in borat mankinis, ninjas, Aime charicters, video game characters....lots of video game characters, anyway the place was so bussy you could hardly move. it was redonkulous!!!!! too many crazy people we finally managed to get into a bar after dodging a few pikachus and a vampire. we got a shooter in the bar, some traffic light thingy. very nice. we managed to pik up some haloween hat things so we could join in the madness. later we found a nightclub called 97 and went dancing, this time i was not surprised to see the nuttyist dancers in the world, its just normal for the chinease! one guy(dressed as a redish blueish fish thing) was jumping screaming and punching the roof, actually i don't think he was dancing, he was clearly insane! (OR BAH)
later we went to an Irish bar so i could show stella wong a good solid pint of irish cider :) we finally decided to call it a night at about 4am, as the metro was closed i got a minibus to mong kok and then a taxi to sham shui po. i managed to find my hosts apartment using mcdonalds as my only reference :D
the next couple of days i wondered around hong kong, took many photos went to local restaurants and mcdonalds a couple of times(fat i know XD) jaq my host also took me to a local noodle shop in sham shui po, good spicy noodles that managed to make my nose bleed :O
on Tuesday i decided to leave hong kong, after 5 very cool days, i returned the apartment keys to my host jaq who had been very kind to let me stay at her apartment for 5 days and not complain when i came back at 430am one night. i thanked her and her family and welcomed jaq to come stay with me when she visits england next year.
next to Macau,
i left hong kong and set off on my way to macau. i got the sky train from central to the airport assuming that is where i get the ferry from as i remember seeing signs for ferrys when i arrived in hong kong, i was wrong! you get the ferry from central so i got a buss back to central, busses in hk have wifi btw (cool shit) but the buss drivers are the moodiest bastards in the world Ever!
i went to get a ferry ticket from central and i was asked if i would like a ferry or a helicopter. helicopter!! sweet, i nearly did it but it was double the price. i arrived in macau, the Lass Vegas of Asia and booked a hotel for the night from the airport as i was unable to find a couch to surf. i went for the cheapest hotel, that turned out to have no wifi, damnnnnn. anyway the hotel was nice, i got a motorbike taki to macau tower to find out about the bunjee jump, macau has the highist comertial bungee in the world, the reason i went to macau!!! i found out the jump cost 200£ and double if you want a video/pictures. so expensive but i couldnt come all the way to macau china and not do it so i booked it for the morning before i fly back to Thailand. the view from the top of the tower was redonkulous! i have never seen such an exciting adrenaline pumping view! the bungee itself wasn't that good as its a controlled decent to stop you hitting the building, feels like cheating.
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